Multiplying Fractions and Whole Numbers

Multiplying Fractions and Whole Numbers
Introduction

Multiplying fractions and whole numbers helps you find parts of a group or scale quantities up or down. It is useful when you need to calculate “how much is in several groups of a...

Kai watches cartoons for one-fourth of an hour each day. Let’s find out how many hours he watches cartoons in 7 days, or a week.

To do this, we need to multiply 7 by 1/4.

Here, 7 is a whole number, and one-fourth is a fraction.

To multiply a whole number and a fraction, first write the whole number as a fraction with a denomina...